Tunde Peto

Tunde Peto is Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at Queen’s University Belfast, Clinical Lead of the Northern Irish Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) Screening Programme and a Consultant Ophthalmologist in Medical Retina.

Professor Peto’s main interest has always been common blinding retinal diseases, with special emphasis on characterisation of diabetic retinopathy and its imaging modalities. She is internationally renowned for setting up and managing diabetic retinopathy screening and training programmes.

Her membership of international organisations include President of the European Association for the Study of Diabetic Eye Complications (EASDec), Board member of EU-EYE and ECV and member of the Global Burden of Disease Eye Epidemiology Group. She is the founding member of the European Eye Epidemiology group that brought 27 epidemiological studies together in order to build collaboration and build further research platforms in Europe.

Professor Peto trained in Hungary and Australia and spent 15 years at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London before taking up her current position in Belfast. She was  ecently named among the UK’s most influential researchers who study diabetes complications.